Crowd Actions in Britain and France from the Middle Ages to the Modern World

Contents
Introduction: The Arc of Violence: Riots, Disturbances of the Peace, Public Protests & Crowd Actions in History; Jack Fruchtman, Jr.
1. Heresy, Rebellion and Utopian Courage: The English Peasant Rising of 1381; Mark O'Brien
2. Riot and Religion in Sixteenth-Century France; Penny Roberts
3. Protest and Rebellion in Seventeenth-Century France; William Beik
4. The Politics of Protest in Seventeenth-Century England; John Walter
5. Provisioning, Power, and Popular Protest from the Seventeenth to the French Revolution and Beyond; Cynthia A. Bouton
6. Food Riots and Provision Politics in Early-Modern England & France, the Irish Famine and World War I; John Bohstedt
7. Nights of Fire: The Gordon Riots of 1780 and the Politics of War; Nicholas Rogers
8. Reformers No Rioters: British Radicalism and Mob Identity in the 1790s; Michael T. Davis
9. Machine-Breaking and the 'Threat from Below' in Great Britain and France during the Early Industrial Revolution; Jeff Horn
10. Militarization and Collective Action in Great Britain, 1815-1820; Gordon Pentland
11. The Revolutionary Century? Revolts in Nineteenth-Century France; Peter McPhee
12. Red May Days: Hopes and Fears in Europe in the 1890s; Chris Wrigley
13. 1968: Politics Takes to the Pavement; Brett Bowden
14. Making Other Worlds Possible? Riots, Movement and Counter-Globalisation; Tadzio Mueller, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, and Sian Sullivan
15. Riots in Thatcher's Britain; Peter Hayes
16. France's Burning Issue: Understanding the Urban Riots of November 2005; Raphael Canet, Laurent Pech, and Maura Stewart